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Gobbler Gets $1.75 Million to Expand Musician File Management Solution
LA based Gobbler, a service that helps musicians backup, organize and transfer large audio and video files, has received $1.75 million to expand the service. Investors in the round include ff Venture Capital, Black Ocean Group, Mindjolt CTO Aber Whitcomb, Facebook VP Dan Rose, ex-Googler Jermey Wenokur, Science's Mike Jones, and the founder of LowerMyBills Matt ...
Global Digital Music Sales up 8% in 2011 to $5.2 Billion
Highlights Of IFPA Digital Music Report 2012: Digital music revenues to record companies grew by 8 per cent globally in 2011 to an estimated US$5.2 billion. This compares to growth of 5 per cent in 2010 and represents the first time the year-on-year growth rate has increased since IFPI started measuring digital revenues in 2004 IFPI ...
U.S. Shutters Megaupload. Founder Kim Dotcom, Others Arrested in New Zealand
In what is being described at the largest such case in U.S. history, 7 individuals and 2 corporations have been charged in the United States with “running an international organized criminal enterprise" responsible for massive worldwide piracy of copyrighted works, through Megaupload.com and related sites. Founder Kim Dotcom and to other Megaupload executives have been detained ...
Social Media Success for Musicians - A 2012 Roadmap
There have been many stories and guest posts on Hypebot recently about how to use social media to market to fans. This seems only fitting, since 2012 will see an increased scrutiny on social media marketing strategies, metrics and results. The last few years have been focused on making sense of how artists can best acquire ...
Stereogrid Offers Free Hybrid Solution for Online Music Promotion
StereoGrid has released the second version of their “music delivery network," a service that combines distribution of music to bloggers and press and a song widget that's embeddable on blogs and websites. It's a well thought out service birthed in the noisy, spam-filled world of hip hop media. Though no company can solve the problems hip ...
The State of Online Music [stats and Analysis]
Next Big Sound, the music analytics website that continuously tracks the number of plays, views, fans, comments, mentions, and other key metrics across the major web properties, yesterday released their 2011 State of Online Music—and the numbers are quite staggering: 64 billion new plays, 16 billion profile views, and 3.5 billion new fan connections. Metrics include ...
What Did Black out Protesting SOPA Just Achieve?
COMMENTARY: With everyone and their mother decrying the passing of the SOPA bill, the White House eventually made its presence heard and also spoke out against it. In an age of quickly accessible information sharing, the Wikipedias and Googles of the world were quick to denounce any moves to restrict the freedom of this information. The ...
Concert Locator Concertcrowd Adds Streaming Audio
Social and location-based live concert locator, ConcertCrowd, has added the ability for users to stream audio from artists coming to town through an exclusive partnership with Rdio. As Hypebot reported previously, ConcertCrowd is a Facebook application that connects with a user's Facebook page to help discover upcoming shows of their favorite artists (artists they currently “like"), ...
Trent Reznor, OK Go, MGMT, Zoe Keating, Neil Gaiman, Others Join Anti-SOPA Fight
(UPDATED) Adding their voices to a rising anti-SOPA tide, a group of prominent musicians, actors, and authors including Trent Reznor, OK Go, MGMT, Zoe Keating and Neil Gaiman have signed an open letter to the US Congress. An open letter to Washington from Artists and Creators We, the undersigned, are musicians, actors, directors, authors, and producers. ...
Walk off the Earth Finds Success with Unique Cover Song Videos
Leveraging the power of the cover song is a topic that fascinates me so I was particularly pleased to encounter Walk off the Earth's cover of Gotye's “Somebody That I Used to Know." It's a great example of a cover song and music video whose creative approach manages to evade the novelty label while helping build ...
